The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
Never mind the President. You can be free, even free as
Rama, and have air and light as your faithful servants.
Be Rama and Rama will give you all—suns, stars, air,
ocean, clouds, forests, mountains and what not?
Everything will belong to you. Is not that a lovely
bargain? Isn't it, dear? Do you have everything, please?
At four in the morning, waked by the kisses of Aurora
and tickled to laughter by free zephyrs, welcomed by the
sweet songs of carolling birds, Rama goes out walking
on the tops of mountains and the river side.
Come, let us laugh together, laugh, laugh, and laugh.
Come soon, my child, look into the fearless smiling eyes
of Rama and live close to nature and Rama. The ecstasy
itself is I.
Swami Rama was a passionate lover of Nature.
Whenever opportunity would permit he would fly
to the hills and forests, as the eagle does to its
mountain eyrie, there to meditate and draw health
and inspiration from Nature's vast solitudes.
Nature imparts of her healing power the most
when man most fully yields himself up to her
influence without either care or distraction. The
Swami wrote the following letter to me from the
Darjeeling forests.
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